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Emily Mitchell

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Associate Professor, English

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Creative Writing

Curriculum Vitae

Emily Mitchell is the author of a novel, The Last Summer of the World (W. W. Norton), which was a finalist for the 2008 NYPL Young Lions Award, and a collection of short stories, Viral (W. W. Norton, 2015). Her stories have appeared in Harper's, Ploughshares, The Sun, New England Review, Alaska Quarterly Review and elsewhere. Her nonfiction has been published in The New York Times, the New Statesman and Guernica. She has received fellowships from Yaddo, the Ucross Foundation, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, the Breadloaf Writers Conference and the Sewanee Writers Conference. She serves as fiction editor for New England Review.

Publications

"Forgotten Pastimes of the Victorians"

Forthcoming work in Prairie Schooner.

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"Her Face I Cannot See"

Published in the Bennington Review.

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"Simon first sees the woman in the big bookstore on the corner of Thirteenth and Broadway. He is browsing the table of new releases in the middle of the long high-ceilinged room when he suddenly has the sense of someone watching him."

Read the story in Bennington Review.

Viral: Stories

A guidebook introduces foreign visitors to a recognizable but dreamlike America, where mirrors are haunted and the Statue of Liberty wears a bowler hat.

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A department-store supervisor must discipline employees who don't smile enough at customers, but finds himself unexpectedly drawn to the saddest of them all. A woman reluctantly agrees to buy her daughter a robot pet, then is horrified when her little girl chooses an enormous mechanical spider for a companion.

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Viral

A dazzling collection of stories about how the familiar can suddenly turn strange.

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A dazzling collection of stories about how the familiar can suddenly turn strange.A guidebook introduces foreign visitors to a recognizable but dreamlike America, where mirrors are haunted and the Statue of Liberty wears a bowler hat. A department-store supervisor must discipline employees who don't smile enough at customers, but finds himself unexpectedly drawn to the saddest of them all. A woman reluctantly agrees to buy her daughter a robot pet, then is horrified when her little girl chooses an enormous mechanical spider for a companion. The characters in these stories find that the world they thought they knew has shifted and changed, become bizarre and disorienting, and, occasionally, miraculous. Told with absurdist humor and sweet sadness, Viral is about being lost in places that are supposed to feel like home.

The Last Summer of the World

In the summer of 1918, with the Germans threatening Paris, Edward Steichen arrives in France to photograph the war for the American army.

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There, he finds a country filled with poignant memories for him: early artistic success, marriage, the birth of two daughters, and a love affair that divided his family. Told with elegance and transporting historical sensitivity, Emily Mitchell’s first novel captures the life of a great American artist caught in the reckoning of a painful past in a world beset by war.

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The Last Summer of the World: A Novel

Told with elegance and transporting historical sensitivity, Emily Mitchell's first novel captures the life of a great American artist caught in the reckoning of a painful past in a world beset by war.

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In the summer of 1918, with the Germans threatening Paris, Edward Steichen arrives in France to photograph the war for the American army. There he finds a country filled with poignant memories for him: early artistic success, marriage, the birth of two daughters, and a love affair that divided his family. Told with elegance and transporting historical sensitivity, Emily Mitchell's first novel captures the life of a great American artist caught in the reckoning of a painful past in a world beset by war.